Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Genovese said one of the continuing problems of socialism is to reconcile the need for a socialist party to gain and maintain power with the need to preserve "the historical traditions of freedom and democracy...
...Palace functioned like a revolving door last week as Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's political opponents swiftly responded to his post-election appeal for "relaxation," "coexistence" and "reasonable cohabitation" among all parties. The first major leftist figure to enter the once impenetrable palace was Socialist Leader François Mitterrand, whose hopes of governing France had suffered a shattering defeat. Mitterrand was ceremoniously greeted by Elysée Secretary General Jean François-Poncet, who ushered the grim leftist into the sumptuous Golden Salon that once served as Charles de Gaulle's private office...
...talk, Politics sat down with them, Ideas sat down with them, above all, History sat down with them." During her teens, she joined the Communist-affiliated Labor Youth League, but she recalls, "I had often been in a state of dismay as I felt the weight of simplistic socialist explanations pressing upon my growing inner life...
Three, the razor-thin margin of victory confirms President Giscard d'Estaing's intuition about the need above all to enlarge the Majority by a reformist course that would attract voters from the Left, and perhaps even the Socialist Party itself some day. But Chirac opposes this strategy, which, if it succeeded, would dilute Gaullist influence in the Majority; and while the Gaullists no longer dominate it, as they had since 1962, they still have just over half of its seats...
...president's new Union for French Democracy (UDF) is composed of factions whose past enthusiasm for reform has been either nil or purely verbal. The Socialists are unlikely to replace the Union of the Left with an alliance with the UDF: they would split their party if they tried, and they have somber memories of past centrist alliances, which killed the old Socialist party...